Poetry Codex

Romantic

Richard Gall

1776–1801

Richard Gall (1776–1801) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 10 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 2 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (10)

  1. How Sweet Is the Scene
  2. Captain O'Kain
  3. My Only Jo and Dearie, O
  4. The Bonnie Blink o' Mary's E'e
  5. The Braes o' Drumlee
  6. I Winna Gang Back to My Mammy Again
  7. The Bard
  8. Louisa in Lochaber
  9. The Hazlewood Witch
  10. Farewell to Ayrshire

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